{"id":8164,"date":"2021-01-14T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117817\/who-tackles-new-coronavirus-strains-worldwide-death-toll-nears-2"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:30:13","slug":"who-tackles-new-coronavirus-strains-as-worldwide-death-toll-nears-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/who-tackles-new-coronavirus-strains-as-worldwide-death-toll-nears-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO tackles new coronavirus strains as worldwide death toll nears 2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"Global health experts gathered on Thursday to tackle new coronavirus strains blamed for a fresh surge in infections as countries including Britain and France tightened restrictions to head off a further worsening of the pandemic that has claimed nearly 2 million lives worldwide.The World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee session came as their colleagues were seeking the origins of the virus on a long-delayed mission to the pandemic ground zero in Wuhan.Almost 2 million of the more\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117817\/who-tackles-new-coronavirus-strains-worldwide-death-toll-nears-2\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global health experts gathered on Thursday to tackle new coronavirus strains blamed for a fresh surge in infections as countries including Britain and France tightened restrictions to head off a further worsening of the pandemic that has claimed nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}